Two European satellites were successfully launched into orbit on Thursday, marking the beginning of a pioneering and ambitious project to create artificial solar eclipses in space. The launch of ...

A pair of satellites have been rocketed into orbit on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through formation flying in space. Each fake eclipse should last six hours once ...

ESA’s Proba-3 satellites—the Occulter and the ... Upcoming Proba-3 Mission Will Create Artificial Solar Eclipses to Study the Sun For this to work, the two spacecraft can’t just drift ...

The world’s first satellite constellation in Earth-moon space is up and running, after a team of young Chinese engineers recovered two of the spacecraft that had been stranded in the wrong orbit ...